GA-8I915P Duo Pro with bad Sanyo WG

[pfrcom]

Probably should have left this in its kerbside system box, being not really worth the effort to fix

Maybe caused by the "400W" Codegen power supply I left behind - ironically its KZG and HM appear fine (3rd pic), along with some of the WG (bottom right of 1st pic, left in 3rd)

[goodpsusearch]

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I would fix it...

[ChaosLegionnaire]

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thats strange... the ones around the ram slot doing the vdimm filtering are bloated but the ones by the atx connector are fine.

in the second pic, the wgs underneath (or to the left) of the video card slot are bloated as expected. it looks as if a hot and powerful video card was used.

also, in the third pic, its kinda strange the wg by the northbridge is fine while the ones around the dimm slots are bloated... hmm...

btw what cpu is under there? if its a 3.4 ghz or faster cpu, the system will function great as a heater during winter...

[Wester547]

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...Massive +5VSB overshoot (or +5V or +3.3V) by any chance? Usually, it's the 1000uF 6.3V KZGs that go bad like this on these boards en masse, or the HMs (2004 datecodes), not the WGs... then again, the ones by the ATX connector look fine so perhaps not. If the board works after a recap, maybe the WGs went bad by their lonesome...

[pfrcom]

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looks as if a hot and powerful video card was used

Radeon X800GT - got that as well

what cpu is under there?

P4 3.0GHz

If the board works after a recap

Works as is

[momaka]

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I would fix it...

Same here... thought I probably won't spend money on new caps for it. After all, the board only supports Pentium 4 CPUs with 800 MHz FPS - and not even Pentium D house-heaters. No Core-based CPU support at all. Ugh.

With that Radeon X800GT, though, it may run some older games just fine.

[goodpsusearch]

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I still keep Pentium 4 SDRAM motherboards. I guess I should get the caps and recycle them

[pfrcom]

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I would fix it...

And same here too

Perhaps I worded it badly, meant to say intrinsic value of the board, without Core2 Duo ability, as well as running only two sticks of RAM albeit DDR1 or DDR2, means it has value only to an enthusiast

Will use up some of the Suncon branded caps I got a while ago, either genuine ones or convincing counterfeits

[pfrcom]

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I still keep Pentium 4 SDRAM motherboards

Me too - https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6568

[ChaosLegionnaire]

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what cpu is under there?

P4 3.0GHz

is it 1mb L2 cache or 2mb L2 cache?

anyway, personally for me, i would go socialist on it for boards like this. i'd just chuck it aside in the pc parts hoarding storeroom. then when i find a needy family who needs a pc, i'd fix it up and give it to them. the caps will just cost a few or several bucks at most. its not like u have to buy 20-30 caps to recap the whole board.

[momaka]

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I still keep Pentium 4 SDRAM motherboards.

Yes, so do I.
In fact, I have a PC right next to me here with an ECS P4VXASD2+ motherboard, which supports both DDR and SDRAM. I used to use it for Half-Life 2 Deathmatch (online), but the latest Steam update makes many of my PCs reboot as soon as I start it. So right now, that PC is just used for testing random old games.

Also, these older P4 boards are good for testing unknown hardware like video and sound cards. Even better for testing my fixed PSUs, since those P4 CPUs use about 60-80 Watts.

That said, I also keep Pentium 3-era motherboards as well. They work fine for data backup/storage server and don't use that much power. Use in conjunction with a portable USB HDD, and you'll never loose data again.

[ChaosLegionnaire]

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so are p4 sdram mobos worth keeping for wide-ranging backward compatibility rather than speed? im asking this cuz im under the impression p4s need high speed ram and fsb to shine. will pay attention to backward compatibility if i rebuild my other p4 rig in future... (needs a new mobo as i couldnt fix it)

[goodpsusearch]

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P4s are obsolete

I had 2 machines with P4 3GHZ HT, the first was LGA775 2GB DDR2 667MHZ nvidia 6600 and the other 478 2GB DDR1 400MHZ AGP 4650.

Both have problem even browsing pages. Until 2013 browsing was smooth and CPU usage didn't get too high. Youtube could play in 720p too.

[pfrcom]

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is it 1mb L2 cache or 2mb L2 cache

1MB, although I'll be changing it to a 3.2GHz/1MB

[pfrcom]

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Here's a work-in-progress, showing the bulging bungs of the eleven Sanyo caps being replaced, together with their Suncon replacements

Perhaps I should have replaced all of the Sanyo, but, I didn't

[pfrcom]

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And the finished project

As I said, the Suncon caps are genuine or a convincing counterfeit

[momaka]

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And the finished project

Looks good!

1MB, although I'll be changing it to a 3.2GHz/1MB

I don't think you would see much of a performance difference... but if you have that CPU, why not, right?

P4s are obsolete

I had 2 machines with P4 3GHZ HT, the first was LGA775 2GB DDR2 667MHZ nvidia 6600 and the other 478 2GB DDR1 400MHZ AGP 4650.

Both have problem even browsing pages. Until 2013 browsing was smooth and CPU usage didn't get too high. Youtube could play in 720p too.

I still play YouTube 720p without stutter on my 2.8 GHz P4 Prescott HT (s478), and that's *without* hardware acceleration from the video card (Intel i865 on-board GPU). Just have to use Flash 10.3, though. *Most* pages still load fairly smoothly, too.

I noticed, however, that Windows 7 seems to run A LOT slower on those P4 CPUs than XP. So I think if you are using old hardware, you should also stick to old OS and software.

So no, P4 CPUs are not obsolete. Just not great for heavier browsing (I consider YT and Facebook as "heavy", since they do have a lot of crap going on). That said, if you want to teach or do work with older versions of software (like Office, Photoshop, AutoCAD, and etc.), they will still do fine for that.

[ChaosLegionnaire]

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Perhaps I should have replaced all of the Sanyo, but, I didn't

well i think i can say that im quite sure that the sanyo by the northbridge doesnt need replacing as it gets cooled by the cpu fan. prolly explains why the ones around the ram slots bulged but not the NB one. could also be due to fsb and/or ram overclocking/overvolting. wonder what ram ICs are on the ram modules? winbond bh-5 perhaps? lol explains why the high ram voltage is needed...

As I said, the Suncon caps are genuine or a convincing counterfeit

i have suncon wgs too as replacements for 1000uF 6.3v filtering on my boards. the green and gold/yellow colour sleeve of your suncons matches mine. the bung also looks like a chain link fence bung. apparently, panasonic and sanyo use the same chain link fence bung for their 8mm caps. the vent stamp also looks genuine. as for the font, the "F" for the capacitance and the "V" for the voltage rating should be the same height as the numbers before it. (cant see from the pic u posted, so u have to check it yourself)

so i think its 95% certain u got genuine suncons. quite unlikely two ppl in different countries got the same fakes from the same cap forger. however, i'm not sure if sg and aus share the same supply line for caps. if it turns out it does then maybe we could have gotten the same fakes from the same fake cap forger.

[pfrcom]

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Getting this from storage recently, noticed cap pictured

Had nasty feeling, thinking it was one of the ones I'd put in

Not so, one of the originals, pushing its bung out from the bottom too

[Wester547]

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It's probably safe to say the original batch in entirety is bad (all the 1000uF 6.3V WG that were original to the board, not the replacement caps). Best to replace all of the old ones, if you would deem it be worth the time and money on a board of this age. But if you would go that far, the KZG and 2004 dated HM could probably do with replacements too (as well as the lone G-Luxon?), even though I'd guess they haven't popped their tops or bottoms.